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Chatty’s Review: The D&D 4e Player’s Handbook

Last week, I reviewed the DMG and found it to be the best version of this long-lived book. It wasn’t without flaws, chiefly among those was how the writing of Skill Challenges was doing the mechanic near-criminal injustice.
This week, I’ll tackle the 4th Edition Players Handbook, from the standpoint of its content and then [...]

Chatty’s Debates: The Relative Merits of Action-Oriented RolePlaying

I know that this here site has been somewhat content-lighter lately.  Summer has arrived and I start to feel the pull for other evening activities than blogging.
Also, since I don’t have a game going anymore, gone are the periodic DM logs or Game Prep posts.  There’s nothing to be worried about, just a more infrequent [...]

Chatty’s Gen Con (and contest update)

It’s done, I just purchased my plane tickets for Gen Con Indianapolis 2008.
I will be there mostly for one thing, and it’s meeting with fellow bloggers, readers and some industry people I’ve quipped and had fun with since I have been online (You better have those Electo-fluff cannons ready and buffed Mr. Baur).
I have been [...]

New Contest: The One Sentence NPC!

We’ve had a few contests, here at Musings of the Chatty DM. For instance, we recently had the very successful 10 word Adventure and very useful Characterization ones.
Now it’s time for something bigger! I have teamed up with RPG e-Zine mogul Johnn Four (of roleplayingtips.comfame) to bring you the biggest independent [...]

Chatty Slides back in WoW, Follows Shamus Young

So after 4 years, Shamus Young gave in to MMO.
First it was Guild Wars.  It lasted a few days.  Now he’s joining World of Warcrack… We all know this will not last just one week.
He joined the Kirin Tor RP server and joined the  Pig & Whistle Society (A Rpg.net guild run by Chainmail Bikini [...]

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